Before the season, many believed the Pittsburgh Steelers were legit Super Bowl contenders and for good reason. An offense that features Ben Roethlisberger, Le’Veon Bell, Antonio Brown, and Juju Smith-Schuster would give any defense problems.
However, Bell elected to sit out the entire season after being franchise tagged and now there’s reports that Brown wants to be traded.
The final result?
Pittsburgh missed the playoffs for the first time since 2013.
Steelers tight end Jesse James summed up the team’s drama perfectly.
“Ah man, we are — Kardashians. We have, I mean, we’re something,” James said, per Penn Live. “It’s Le’Veon Bell issues, you have more stuff popping up weekly, Jeremy Fowler’s reporting stuff about Le’Veon every other week. There’s just people calling people out. We were in the front of the ticker on ESPN too much for just reasons that weren’t related to football and not for us playing great ball. It was more distractions.”
Brown is under contract until 2022, so if Pittsburgh doesn’t elect to trade the disgruntled star, they’ll have to fix this relationship.